SEMA 2025

jsmith said:
Blindspot is a wonderful ADA built into newer vehicles and one I find extremely useful.
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I find mine extremely useful glad I paid a bit extra for it

. Contrarily, one of the dumbest ADAS I've had to live with for a time is rear occupant alert. Constantly beeps when you've left a shopping bag on the back seat. Not yet smart enough to distinguish between a human and a bag, but of course manufacturers want to just be seen as implementing anything no matter how half polished it is
 
I wonder if VanTrue could have made that IR unit that mounts on the hood, to be powered locally by the battery at 12 volts, and then use WIFI or BT to transmit to the screen?
 
Augustus said:
Contrarily, one of the dumbest ADAS I've had to live with for a time is rear occupant alert. Constantly beeps when you've left a shopping bag on the back seat. Not yet smart enough to distinguish between a human and a bag, but of course manufacturers want to just be seen as implementing anything no matter how half polished it is
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I agree. I wouldn't mind the alert if it was optional, but this one is always-on in my car. I've taken to buckling up rear seat belts when they're not in use just to stop the alert.
 
TonyM said:
I agree. I wouldn't mind the alert if it was optional, but this one is always-on in my car. I've taken to buckling up rear seat belts when they're not in use just to stop the alert.
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I sympathise with you there, it was the corrola I had as a rental car for a while, had to do the same thing myself and just leave it.

Problem with ADAS with a lot of brands is that either you can't turn alerts off, or they make it so that you can turn it off but buried deep in a sub-menu. And then you have to do that every single time that you turn the car ignition on. Sigh.
 
Augustus said:
I sympathise with you there, it was the corrola I had as a rental car for a while, had to do the same thing myself and just leave it.

Problem with ADAS with a lot of brands is that either you can't turn alerts off, or they make it so that you can turn it off but buried deep in a sub-menu. And then you have to do that every single time that you turn the car ignition on. Sigh.
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Subaru is that way; no way to permanently disable the ADAS features. They are a nuisance more than anything else; I had a loaner that I did not realise had Lane Departure. The car kept pulling me to one side or the other based on where it thought I should be. It took me a few miles before I realised what was happening. I pulled over at the next stop to figure out how to disable the feature. The car alerted every time I turned into my driveway to enter the garage. Not being able to disable ADAS permanently is the only reason I did not purchase a new Subaru this year. I will not pay that much money to be annoyed every day. 🙂

Collision detection and Adaptive Cruise Control are excellent; I like those features, but the rest are a pure annoyance to me.
 
lufa6977 said:
Subaru is that way; no way to permanently disable the ADAS features. They are a nuisance more than anything else; I had a loaner that I did not realise had Lane Departure. The car kept pulling me to one side or the other based on where it thought I should be. It took me a few miles before I realised what was happening. I pulled over at the next stop to figure out how to disable the feature. The car alerted every time I turned into my driveway to enter the garage. Not being able to disable ADAS permanently is the only reason I did not purchase a new Subaru this year. I will not pay that much money to be annoyed every day. 🙂

Collision detection and Adaptive Cruise Control are excellent; I like those features, but the rest are a pure annoyance to me.
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I honestly wonder when manufacturers if ever, are going to cotton to the fact that consumers think most of their features are useless. And give us the option to , as you rightly say, disable the ADAS. Sure, leave a few on like AEB etc but at least give us the option to turn c..rap like lane stuff off. I can stay in my lane thank you very much lol
 
At least in Europe and UK, you cannot turn off speed limit beep/visual indicator permanently. You have to do it every single trip. It is a law so they can get their safety rating. There aren't even hacks.
 
lufa6977 said:
...Collision detection and Adaptive Cruise Control are excellent...
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Rear cross traffic alerts are as well when backing out of a parking space with big vans/SUVs/pickup trucks next to you blocking your view of potential oncoming traffic.
 
mentadent said:
At least in Europe and UK, you cannot turn off speed limit beep/visual indicator permanently. You have to do it every single trip. It is a law so they can get their safety rating. There aren't even hacks.
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Exactly.
SInce 2024, all new cars need to have specific ADAS features.
They will be enabled upon startup and can't be disabled permanently.
It's very annoying. For the majority of cars this can't even be removed by coding.
Apparently there are some modules available that will disable these things on startup.
 
DT MI said:
Rear cross traffic alerts are as well when backing out of a parking space with big vans/SUVs/pickup trucks next to you blocking your view of potential oncoming traffic.
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Agreed. Cross Traffic (Backing up or Parking.. Mine Beeps if too close or an object is behind my car), Blind Spot, Backup Camera, and Front and Rear Parking Sensors (beeps if nearing an object too closely) are great. These ADA's aren't gimmicks.
 
Julian23 said:
Exactly.
SInce 2024, all new cars need to have specific ADAS features.
They will be enabled upon startup and can't be disabled permanently.
It's very annoying. For the majority of cars this can't even be removed by coding.
Apparently there are some modules available that will disable these things on startup.
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The Land Rover Defender has a handy button on the steering wheel for 'driver options' which can be configured to turn off all unwanted ADAS 'features', yes, it's per ignition cycle but it's just one button...
Some vehicles can have their CCF edited to a country outside of EU/UN rules which allows for ADAS settings to be 'sticky'...
 
Vortex Radar said:
Now that I'm back home, continuing on with the photo dump tend, time to start posting up videos as I finish editing them. 🙂

Blackvue Elite 9 & 10, full video


Blackvue Elite 9 & 10, short

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@Vortex Radar Were you at SEMA at an "exclusive time"? For so many vendors, the show appeared sparsely attended and a ghost town from the videos posted.
 
Vortex Radar said:
Nope. People often see the camera and like to scatter, lol, so the booths look unnaturally deserted.
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@Vortex Radar

I did enjoy your full video, especially the walk through of Viofo and Vantrue, and showing off some of the other lesser named / newer brands (Vueroid). What did the woman say after you exited the SUV with the Infrared Camera? I couldn't understand her? Was she telling you it was suppose to be "off limits"?

Do you test Radar Jammers (Uniden seemed to have a cool one), albeit ungodly expensive!
 
jsmith said:
@Vortex Radar

I did enjoy your full video, especially the walk through of Viofo and Vantrue, and showing off some of the other lesser named / newer brands (Vueroid). What did the woman say after you exited the SUV with the Infrared Camera? I couldn't understand her? Was she telling you it was suppose to be "off limits"?
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I'd have to doublecheck the video. I did walk around beforehand in the morning to let people know that I'd be back livestreaming, so heads up if they see me with a phone and a gimball, but I think it was one of the people who wasn't realizing that I was livestreaming and brought up something about things she'd experienced when she was doing videos.
jsmith said:
Do you test Radar Jammers (Uniden seemed to have a cool one), albeit ungodly expensive!
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Laser jammers, yeah. The Uniden jammer is pretty good. I've got it installed on both cars and have been testing since preproduction. It needs a few design tweaks which they're working out, but aren't ready to announce publicly yet.
jujuji said:
@Vortex Radar Are you planning a SEMA video covering the new Thinkware u3000 pro?
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Definitely. I got the Blackvue videos posted yesterday. Gonna work on Safy today and then Thinkware next, both short form and long form.
 
The SAFY 9 looks very interesting. I have avoided the Blackvue line for various reasons, but this SAFY 9 and its simplicity looks very appealing.
 
Vortex Radar said:
I'd have to doublecheck the video. I did walk around beforehand in the morning to let people know that I'd be back livestreaming, so heads up if they see me with a phone and a gimball, but I think it was one of the people who wasn't realizing that I was livestreaming and brought up something about things she'd experienced when she was doing videos.
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It was at the Vantrue booth right after you exited the White Jeep or Suv.
Vortex Radar said:
Laser jammers, yeah. The Uniden jammer is pretty good. I've got it installed on both cars and have been testing since preproduction. It needs a few design tweaks which they're working out, but aren't ready to announce publicly yet.
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What model Uniden are you testing? Sounds cool. Are there Laser Jammer forums like this to get into beta testing / trialing products?
 
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